THE Court of Appeal is expected to soon deliver its ruling in the case brought by Hosfosuwa Amena Rutherford, who is currently serving a total of 98 years for killing her two children.
In 2018, Justice Navindra Singh sentenced Rutherford after a jury found her guilty on two counts of manslaughter for the March 27, 2014 killing of her two small children at Branch Road, Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara (ECD).

For killing four-year-old Hodascia Codogan, Rutherford was sentenced to 45 years, while she was ordered to serve 53 years behind bars for killing of one-year-old Jabari Codogan. The two sentences will run consecutively.

Dissatisfied with the conviction and sentence, Rutherford moved to the Appeal Court, arguing that the trial was unfair, the judge erred in law and that the sentence was unduly severe.
On Monday, during a Zoom hearing, Chancellor (ag) of the Judiciary, Yonette Cummings-Edwards, and Justices of Appeal Dawn Gregory and Rishi Persaud, reserved their judgements in the case.

A date for ruling is yet to be set.

The children died on March 27, 2014, moments after Rutherford administered carbon tablets—a pesticide popularly known for killing rats—to them. Her claim was that she thought that she had given them cold medication.

Rutherford was herself hospitalised for some time after ingesting the tablets.

According to her caution statement, Rutherford told police about having problems and being frustrated while awaiting word on her application for a job as a traffic warden with the Guyana Police Force.